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NEWS
1) Children’s Disaster Services deploys team to work with children at border
2) Moderator’s Town Hall features Brethren historians
3) Imagine! God’s earth and people restored

UPCOMING EVENTS
4) National Youth Conference 2022 theme, dates, and cost are announced
5) NOAC service project will fund books for Junaluska Elementary School
6) Multivocational pastors are invited to summer book study
7) ‘Play, on Purpose’ webinar to take place May 11

8) Brethren bits: Prayer request for India, personnel notice, NOAC registration opens May 3, filming has begun for Annual Conference, concern for Haitian deportations, video from Ecuador, and much more

NEWS
1) Selective Service Repeal Act receives endorsement
2) National Council of Churches issues statement following conviction in George Floyd murder case
3) Churches are asked to help with COVID-19 vaccination effort

UPCOMING EVENTS
4) Bethany Seminary to hold commencement ceremony online
5) New and Renew workshop presenters include Coté Sorens and Darryl Williamson

FEATURE
6) US militarism and climate change

7) Brethren bits: Remembering the Armenian Genocide, prayer requests from Brethren around the world, ways to support youth attending the virtual CCS, endorsement of “Palestinian Children and Families Act,” Timbercrest celebrates Brethren residents turning 100, and more

NEWS
1) Virtual blood drive #SleevesUpBrethren2021 campaign offers Brethren a chance to give
2) Brethren Disaster Ministries among groups building new homes for Ohio tornado survivors
3) Bethany Seminary launches new Master of Arts in Spiritual and Social Transformation

PERSONNEL
4) Western Plains District announces transition team

UPCOMING EVENTS
5) Online conversation will listen and learn from Brethren leaders of Asian-American heritage
6) Virtual New and Renew event is accessible for bi-vocational ministers
7) Next Moderator’s Town Hall to address ‘the new normal’

RESOURCES
8) New Bethany Seminary website promotes environmental awareness in congregations

FEATURE
9) ‘If we want to find God, we need to be with the victims of this oppression and prejudice’

10) Brethren bits: Remembering the Chibok schoolgirls who are still missing on the 7th anniversary of their abduction, remembering Galen Miller and Emiko Okada, job openings, FaithX registration ends, evangelistic outreach in Venezuela

NEWS
1) Christ is risen. Christ is risen indeed!

2) Global Church of the Brethren Communion takes survey of essential Brethren characteristics

3) Brethren Disaster Ministries and Children’s Disaster Services monitor situation at border

4) Network seeks mission advocates for each congregation and district

5) Twelve mini-grants are given through program for Racial Justice and Healing Racism

PERSONNEL
6) Wenger resigns as executive minister of Western Pennsylvania District

UPCOMING EVENTS
7) First virtual Annual Conference will feature worship, business, Bible studies, concerts, insight and equipping sessions, networking groups, and more

8) Virtual Annual Conference: 12 ‘how-tos’

9) Early-bird registration ends April 9 for Leadership Summit on Wellbeing

10) Two-part Ventures course to focus on cultural competency

11) Brethren bits: Remembering Lois Neher, prayer for Venezuela and Brazil, Messenger gets “Best of the Church Press” awards, Shine VBS named a “top pick,” letter on Yemen, action alert on AAPI violence, FAQ from Annual Conference officers, Healing Racism Congregations and Communities #ConversationsTogether, FaithX registration ends April 15, and more

NEWS
1) National Council of Churches laments mass shooting in Boulder, calls for gun violence to end
2) COVID emergency grants for church workers are extended again
3) Manchester University launches two nursing programs
4) Bridgewater College announces the Bonnie Forrer and John Harvey Rhodes School of Arts and Humanities

UPCOMING EVENTS
5) National Youth Sunday invites youth to lead in worship, theme acknowledges their pandemic struggle
6) Gather with the Dunker Punks for a virtual love feast
7) Pacific Southwest District offers online love feast

RESOURCES
8) Church of the Brethren Yearbook new web page has downloadable resources
9) New Vacation Bible School curriculum invites children to ‘Come to the Table’

REFLECTION
10) Taking nature Black

11) Brethren bits: Messenger online archive, new help for funeral costs from COVID-19, letters to the President support refugees, Material Resources shipments, young adult newsletter, Justice for Black Farmers Act, Good Friday Tenebrae Service, and more